The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-30
LOST SHIP, WIFE AND CHILD
The Schooner Lizzie Nelson
Strikes the Steamer Atlas
and Sinks.

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port Saturday morning with large
hole in her starboard bow, directly
under the water line. she brought the
captain and four seanen of the Inflated
schooner Lizzie Wilson, of Portland, Me-,
which the Atlas sunk cary last Thursday
morning a little 10 the south of Barnegat.
The steward of the schooner, one sailor and
the captains wife and eleven-year-old
daughter Alice went down with the
schooner.
The Atlas left this port Wednesday after
moor, bound for Port Lemon, with gen.
eral cargo. abe had a crew of twenty
eight men and was in command OF Capt.
TOhin, an old and experienced seaman.
The schooner in command If Capt. A. ID.
Chadwick, one OF her owners, was bound
from Baltimore to Boston with cargo of
coal She sailed from Baltimore last Fri
day and met with no accident or delay I'M
til the fatal Thursday morning when she
came in collision with the Atlas. The
bow of the steamer cut through into the
hold of the Atlas, and but for the water
tight compartments on each side OF the
rent, the steamer would also have gone to
the bottom. After the collision and when
the captain and surviving members of the
schooner's crew were rescued, the Atlas
turned around and proceeded slowly back
to the city for repairs The atlas is one
of the small steamers OF this line and car
ries no passengers.
Capt. Tobin, of the Atlas, reparts that
Wednesday night was rather thick, but he
did not consider it sufficiently SO to make
a reduction of the speed of the vessel nee
essary. However, before he retired, he
ordered Chief Officer Roberts, who was in
charge of the bridge to keep steady look
out, and call him at once should anything
occur. Roberts is an old and efficient sea-
man and was for number Of years second
officer on the Guion steamer Alaska. This
is his third voyage in the service OF the
Atlas Company. At 3 o'clock Thursday
morning Mr.. Roberts was Mortified to see a
large schooner under full sail coming rap
idly through the mist. He instantly sig
nailed To reverse the engines, which was
promptly done, and Capt. Tobin almost
simultaneously appeared on the bridge. 1t
was too late, however, and the vessels came
together with a tremendous crash, the
schooner's fere tOpmast and fore rigging
being carried away.
The steamers crew was promptly mar
shalled on deck and the boats lowered to
rescue the drowning sailors. The schooner
under the sharp bows of the Atlas was sail
ahoat, but five minutes later careened anu
sank out of sight, carrying down four hu-
ings. The people of the schooner were on
deck, but rigging enmeshed Mrs. Chadwick
and her daughter and the two sailors so
that it was impossible TO eXtracticate them
i'm time 20 save their lives. Capt. Chad
wick and the other survivors supported
themselves on pieces of wreckage until the
steamers boats came to their assistance.
The rescued men were cared for by the
captain and officers until port was reached
and the agents at No. 50South Water street
were communicated with, who took charge
of the men, and return them to their re-
spective homes in Maine and adjoining
Eastern States.
Capt. Chadwick is eart-broken with his
loss. He always on his voyage had with
him his wife and little daughter, and his
men speak of him as an unusual tender
husband and father. The sailors in their
way expressed their sorrow at the sad Ca
lamity, anu especially spoke in high terms
of the many estimable qualities OF the
young daughter of the skipper. Captain
THAI ulOlucI
were covered by the falling masts and sails
making rescue impossible, otherwise they
would undoubtedly have been saved along
with the others. He was confident that
everything possible under the circum-
stances was done, and speaks gratefully Of
the kindness of Capt. Tobin and the off,
GERS of the Atlas.
The responsibility of the collision is not
apparent. The officer in charge of the
Atlas at the time the collision stOutly
affirms that the schooner carried no light:
and gave no warning of her presence in the
vicinity. Capt Chadwick and his crew
on the other hand, maintain that all the
necessary lights were burning, and the
condition of the weather did not warrant
them in sounding the fog horn. A court
of investigation will be held and the re-
sponsibility fixed. The lost schooner wa:
built in Maine, in 1885, by Walker, Dunn
& Co. She was owned by Dunn & Elliott
Of the same place.